Vidyhadaan Trust (UK) is a non- profit making registered charity organization set up by a group of individuals in the United Kingdom. The management committee of the trust consists of 13 members elected from trustees and fee paying members. The trustees have a strong bond with India and have benefited by gaining qualification whilst studying in an environment of financial hardship. In 1950 there were only a hand full of personals educated to matriculation level. Until late fifties early sixties there were hardly any engineers, doctors, science, arts and commerce graduates. It was only during late sixties and early seventies that a group of students took up higher education and produced the first generation of qualified Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, educated to degree and diploma level, a doctor educated to MBBS, and Science, Arts and Commerce graduates. The founder members of Vidyhadaan Trust (UK) were among the same batch of graduates. The founder members of the Vidyhadaan Trust (UK) were fortunate to migrate to United Kingdom and been able to take up good jobs as Bank Manager, Accountants and engineers. Over the years the founder members of trust have visited their motherland and observed their friends, relatives and fellow villagers struggling in educating their children. The Trustees knows the benefit of education are both immense and necessary for the overall well being not just for ourselves, but for the society in which we live. The trustee also know that the only way they can help their relative, friends, and fellow villagers out of poverty is by helping them to educate themselves and hence a registered charity called Vidyhadaan Trust (UK) was set up in the year 2001 and that time onwards Vidyhadaan Trust (UK) has not looked back even once. The main objectives of the Vidyhadaan Trust (UK) are:
The advancement of education for under privileged children, students, and adults in India by provision of financial, material, and other support to enable children, students and young adults to further their education and training. Contributing assistance to hospitals and education establishment and other relevant charities for the further advancement of the medical research. The relief of or assistance in efforts to (directly or indirectly via contribution to other charities) relieve persons (children, young people and the elderly) living in India who are experiencing poverty, sickness, hardship and distress. The support of projects which aid disaster, floods, famine and man made disaster.
